Published papers at conferences like WPES (co-located with CCS 2024), FOCI24 (co-located with PETS24), SpaceSec24@NDSS, etc.; awarded a National Research Centre Grant (£8.6M) to work on protecting citizens online through PETs that scale while mitigating their misuse by adversaries; received a New Investigator Award to investigate 'Feedback and Optimisation for Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks'.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; involved in multiple research projects such as secure and private satellite communications, traffic analysis attacks, novel metadata-protecting routing schemes, etc.
Background
Research interests include secure and private satellite communications, anonymous communication & censorship resistance, data-driven privacy systems engineering, etc. He is a faculty member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru) and the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).
Miscellany
Currently recruiting PhD students in Privacy and Security, with project themes including security and privacy of satellite networks, integration & interoperability of PETs in large-scale systems (e.g., E2EE messaging platforms), secure and private machine learning/AI for decision and communication systems, etc.